Dresser and bureau.



A. LICHTEN'STINE.

DRESSER AND BUREAU.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18, 1911.

WITSESSES CMMM Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

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ALBERT LICHTENSTINE, OF EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOWILLIAM E. RUSSELL, OF EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO.

DRESSER AND BUREAU.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

To all whom itmcy concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT LIOI-ITEN- STINE, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at East Liverpool, in the county ofColumbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Dressers and Bureaus, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to dressers and bureaus, and the primary objectof my invention is to provide a dresser or bureau with a folding mirrorthat can be folded into the body of the dresser and protected duringtransportation or storage.

Another object of this invention is to furnish a dresser with a foldablemirror that can be swung into the dresser to permit of the top of thedresser being used as a table or stand.

A further object of the invention is to provide a dresser or bureau ofthe above type consisting of comparatively few parts, inexpensive tomanufacture, easy to manipulate, and susceptible to any desiredornamentation.

I attain the above objects by a mechanical construction that will behereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein like numerals denotecorresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is afront elevation of the dresser or bureau. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionalview of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view of aportion of the dresser. Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional View ofa portion of the same; and Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of thedresser showing the mirror folded within the dresser.

A dresser or bureau in accordance with this invention comprises a frontwall 1, end walls 2 and 3, a rear wall 4, a bottom plate 5, a top plate6, and a rear foot piece 7.

The front wall lhas drawer-ways 8 for drawers 9, slidably arranged uponcleats 10, carried by the inner sides of the end walls 2 and 3. The footpiece 7 projects beyond the rear edge of the bottom plate 5 and the endwalls 2 and 3 project beyond the rear wall 4, with the rear edge of thetop plate 6 meeting the front edge of the rear wall 4. Hinged orotherwise connected to the rear vertical edge of the end wall 2, as at11, is a door 12 corresponding in length and depth to the body of thedresser. The door 12 has an auxiliary top plate 13 and the lower edge ofsaid door engages the rear edge of the foo-t piece'7, also the end ofthe wall 3. The door 12 is retained in a closed position by aconventional form of hook and eye 14. The top plate 13 of the door 12meets the rear upper edge of the wall 4, thereby providing alongitudinal slot 15. Hinged to the upper rear edge of the wall 4, as at16, is a mirror frame 17 having a mirror 18 and a backing 19. When thedoor .12 is in an open posi tion, the mirror frame can be swungdownwardly into parallelism with the rear wall 4, as shown in Fig. 5,and when the mirror frame is in a vertical position for use, it isbraced by the top plate 13 of the door 12, and by a molding strip 20hinged, as at 21, to the rear edge of the top plate 6. This moldingstrip is also employed for closing the slot 15, when the mirror frame isin a folded position.

From the foregoing it will be observed that the dresser or bureaupresents a neatappearance with the mirror frame in a vertical positionfor use, it being almost impossible to detect the folding feature of themirror. When the mirror frame is in a folded position within the body ofthe dresser, it is fully protected and the top of the dresser presents asmooth surface whereby the dresser can be utilized as a table or stand.

While in the drawing there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of theinvention, I would have it understood that the structural elements aresusceptible to such variations and modifications as fall within thescope of the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. A dresser comprising a body having a top plate, arear wall and end walls, a door hinged to the rear edge of one of saidend walls and adapted to be detachably connected to the rear edge of theother end wall, a mirror frame hinged to the upper edge of said rearwall and adapted to be folded downwardly into parallelism with said rearwall, a top plate carried by said door and adapted to cotiperate withthe top plate of said body in supporting said mirror frame in a verticalposition upon the upper edge of said rear wall, and means carried by thetop plate of said body for closing the I space between said top plateswhen said mirror frame is folded.

2. A dresser comprising a body having end walls, a top plate, a rearwall, a door hinged to one of said end walls and detachably connected tothe other end wall, a top plate carried by said door and forming thewall of a longitudinal slot at the rear edge of the top plate of saidbody, a mirror frame hinged to the upper rear edge of said rear wall andadapted to fold into parallelism with said rear wall, and a moldingstrip hinged to the rear edge of the top plate of said body for bracingsaid mirror frame and adapted to fold inwardly to close the slot betweensaid top plates when said mirror frame is folded.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

ALBERT LICHTENSTINE. Witnesses:

JAS. F. CUMMINs, JOE MOKENNA.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

